I just Beat The GMAT!

Wonderful tips. My heart really jumped in joy to see you mentioning "Om mani padme hum" because that is also one of my favorite relaxing music. Really calms me down and helps me divert myself from the short term tensions,look beyond them and see the bigger picture

powerpuff wrote:Wonderful tips. My heart really jumped in joy to see you mentioning "Om mani padme hum" because that is also one of my favorite relaxing music. Really calms me down and helps me divert myself from the short term tensions,look beyond them and see the bigger picture

Great to hear that someone else here also likes that incantation

Neodante,
I can't thank you enough for those great tips. Like Brent said, what I liked about your tips is that they had nothing to do with studying but only with the psychological part of the GMAT which unfortunately I had not been paying much attention to. Thanks again

megadeth wrote:Neodante,
I can't thank you enough for those great tips. Like Brent said, what I liked about your tips is that they had nothing to do with studying but only with the psychological part of the GMAT which unfortunately I had not been paying much attention to. Thanks again

Glad that you found those tips helpful. Being psychologically prepared is an essential component of taking the GMAT, or for that matter any exam.This is very same reason that you will see a lot of posts here on this forum claiming that I did EVERYTHING under the sun for the GMAT yet got a 500. Had these people looked at the GMAT from a slightly different perspective, things would be better.

Hey what were u r MGMAT Scores ? Can you share ?

gmatNooB8787 wrote:Hey what were u r MGMAT Scores ? Can you share ?

I usually got something between 680 and 730 on the MGMAT CATs. I think the quant questions on MGMAT CATs are just not representative of the actual thing. Even the verbal questions are more grammar centric in SC and can be easily done unlike the actual GMAT or GMATPREP where eliminating even one option becomes a tad difficult task

Did you take any Princeton tests also ? I took of them and am absolutely depressed. The questions were easy, unlike that in MGMAT CATs ,and i thought that i was doing well but when the score popped up i was shocked to see a 620 and 640 on the tests.

punewarrior wrote:Did you take any Princeton tests also ? I took of them and am absolutely depressed. The questions were easy, unlike that in MGMAT CATs ,and i thought that i was doing well but when the score popped up i was shocked to see a 620 and 640 on the tests.

Yes, I did take two princeton review tests and I must say that their scoring algorithm is almost screwed. I wouldn't be very wrong if it just randomly gives you a score based on the number of questions you get correct or wrong.

Congrats neo,
I want to ask that when you see a new problem do you relate it,most of the times, to some problem you did in past or you take EACH problem as a new one. I am asking this because many experts have iterated that one thing that differentiate 760+ scorers from other test takers is that almost all of 760+ test takers are able to relate problem faced on test to some problem that they did in the past. So, Does that mean they remember/learn structure of the problems they do and if that is the case i would like to know how to achieve that. At present i can only deduce what type of ques (say assumption on CR) but i am not able to relate to some previous ques.

vikram4689 wrote:Congrats neo,
I want to ask that when you see a new problem do you relate it,most of the times, to some problem you did in past or you take EACH problem as a new one. I am asking this because many experts have iterated that one thing that differentiate 760+ scorers from other test takers is that almost all of 760+ test takers are able to relate problem faced on test to some problem that they did in the past. So, Does that mean they remember/learn structure of the problems they do and if that is the case i would like to know how to achieve that. At present i can only deduce what type of ques (say assumption on CR) but i am not able to relate to some previous ques.

I'd say learning,not remembering,the structure of the problems is important. It is very important that you should be able to see what kind of answers are usually correct say on assumptions. The GMAT test makers have a limited number of question types to test so that means that all they are doing is that they are playing with the language say in CR. So you should be able to "unlayer" the question and see through the fluff.

neodante wrote:

vikram4689 wrote:Congrats neo,
I want to ask that when you see a new problem do you relate it,most of the times, to some problem you did in past or you take EACH problem as a new one. I am asking this because many experts have iterated that one thing that differentiate 760+ scorers from other test takers is that almost all of 760+ test takers are able to relate problem faced on test to some problem that they did in the past. So, Does that mean they remember/learn structure of the problems they do and if that is the case i would like to know how to achieve that. At present i can only deduce what type of ques (say assumption on CR) but i am not able to relate to some previous ques.

I'd say learning,not remembering,the structure of the problems is important. It is very important that you should be able to see what kind of answers are usually correct say on assumptions. The GMAT test makers have a limited number of question types to test so that means that all they are doing is that they are playing with the language say in CR. So you should be able to "unlayer" the question and see through the fluff.

Can you please elaborate by giving an example. I can easily recognize an assumption question, what additional i need to do. One elaborate example would help me to realize the very point. I will be grateful to you

vikram4689 wrote:
Can you please elaborate by giving an example. I can easily recognize an assumption question, what additional i need to do. One elaborate example would help me to realize the very point. I will be grateful to you

In assumptions also, there are different types of assumptions. One type of assumption eliminates alternate paths of causation.For example, if you have OG12, then you will see that Q43 of CR falls into this question type. Now you should be able to recognize this type of assumption easily. And how do you do this ? This assumption type will have superlative words in the conclusion. You will see that this sentence uses "most" in the conclusion .That's a trigger word for such assumption questions.

But largely speaking if you even don't know the different types of assumption but can understand the argument well, there's no harm in it too

neodante wrote:

vikram4689 wrote:
Can you please elaborate by giving an example. I can easily recognize an assumption question, what additional i need to do. One elaborate example would help me to realize the very point. I will be grateful to you

In assumptions also, there are different types of assumptions. One type of assumption eliminates alternate paths of causation.For example, if you have OG12, then you will see that Q43 of CR falls into this question type. Now you should be able to recognize this type of assumption easily. And how do you do this ? This assumption type will have superlative words in the conclusion. You will see that this sentence uses "most" in the conclusion .That's a trigger word for such assumption questions.

But largely speaking if you even don't know the different types of assumption but can understand the argument well, there's no harm in it too

Thanks Neo , now i can see what you were indicating earlier. So how did you find out such types, is there any relevant book or if you any document pleaseee send it to me

vikram4689 wrote: Thanks Neo , now i can see what you were indicating earlier. So how did you find out such types, is there any relevant book or if you any document pleaseee send it to me

Great that you found the example useful. i learnt these things by going through these forums only. You may find this link helpful
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/fin ... t5112.html

Thanks Neo, can you please give one example for SC as well. May your example will be turning point for me in SC (as it was in CR).